Hi there. In this video,
we're going to look at our opacity.
We've put this in the background as a watermark,
we'll show you how to put on every page like a watermark.
But what you came here for, is this guy?
So this is like transparency,
but it does a nice reflect with a background,
a rich rather than a washed out thing that
happens normally when you just play with the opacity.
It's something called blending modes. Let's go and do that now.
So the easy one is I'm going to make sure all my main copy layer,
and I'm going to go to file place.
I'm just going to do a nice washed out watermark.
I'm going to grab the green logo 4.
I'm going to click and drag a nice big version of it.
I'm going to put it down here like this.
I'm going to lower the opacity.
We've done this in an earlier tutorial,
so we're not going to spend too long on it.
Nice watermark thing.
Now if you want it on every page,
say it's a washed out than image and back on every page,
just make sure it's on your pages panel and it's on
your A-master as a double-click A-master and put it on these two pages,
and it will appear in the background of all the other pages.
I'm not going to do mine now because mine is white, you're not going to see it.
The one thing with transparency is if you are working with it,
is to make sure you get a proof mode.
Because the opacity what looks on your screen,
I bet you if I open this actual in design document,
open on lots of different laptops.
You will see that they all look different.
You might be thinking, "Yeah,
that's just the perfect amount of opacity."
But when you send that off to your printer,
it comes back and it's either way too bright,
or way too dull.
I've done it before to send off to business cards,
came back and you couldn't even tell I had a watermark.
Which was not a big problem,
but I've had it the other way when proofs have come back and the watermark is really,
really strong, it just overpowers the white text as well.
Get a proof done from your printers to say I want you to print the front cover
only send me a proof often they'll cost you.
They normally call that a Wet Proof or if you just print again in your office easy-peasy,
print it off and check.
Let's look at the more advanced transparency where we start looking at Lyon modes.
First up, let's grab an image for this page to.
Double click page 2, file place.
It's called image 1, click open and I'm going to click and drag it out a certain size.
I'm zooming out, holding there my command and shift and
dragging it so it is roughly bigger than my page.
I'm going to go now and resize and reposing.
Hit W's to get on my guides back,
tuck it all in into there,
and line it all out with my bleed.
You can use your content, grab up or double-click it and move it across.
Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab the rectangle tool and I'm going to draw
a rectangle that fits this space is where I'll put is going to go,
I'm going to give it a fill of my green it hot red,
go back to my selection tool,
and this is where it's going to get interesting.
I wanted to do some stuff because opacity is going to work.
If I lower it down, but it ends up looking quite washed out,
and that's not the effect I want or that we saw at the beginning of this video.
So what we do is turn the opacity back up to 100.
What we're going to do is play around with object.
We're going to look at a fix and we're going to
play around with this one called transparency.
So it's slightly different from opacity,
very similar effect if you just leave it on normal,
I lower it down, it looks the same as opacity,
but what I'm going to do is start playing around with these things called LAB modes.
You can see instantly the first one multiplies a whole lot better.
Screen in you can just work your way through.
Don't worry too much about there's not a perfect one every time.
It'll depend on the color that you have,
the top and now case read,
if yours is blue, it will look different with these little settings.
So just work through your image.
How to fix your walls,
and have a little look through color bins is the one
I want to go through them all, find the one you like.
You can lower down the opacity afterwards.
So you like color bin but just maybe not as strong,
and that's how we do some more like
interesting transparency when you add this thing called Blending Modes.
Let's click, Okay, and that'll be it for this video.
I'll see you in the next one where we start looking at rounding these corners. Let's see